Chapter Summaries

Bai Yu arrived at Black Mountain and saw that powerful clans from across the Wild Beast Domain had gathered to contest the opportunities at Holy Snake Mountain. Mo Xuan singled him out as a Great Apothecary, drawing the attention and greed of the assembled forces.

• Bai Yu descended near Black Mountain and learned that Heavenly Snake Ancestor and Li Shuyu faced a gathering of formidable clans.
• Meng Bingyan and Miao Yinling identified the Mystic Fire Azure Kite Clan, the Sacred Heart Giant Elephant Clan, the Three-Headed Flood Dragon Clan, and other powerful groups.
• Bai Yu assessed the clans’ strength and saw that their Tribulation Transcendence cultivators made them confident enough to disregard Heavenly Snake Ancestor and Li Shuyu’s warning.
• Mo Xuan approached Bai Yu and asked whether he had been responsible for the earlier probing.
• The gathered groups whispered about capturing Bai Yu for his value as a Great Apothecary, but held back while competing for Holy Snake Mountain’s opportunities.

Bai Yu confronted Mo Xuan, who had singled him out, and offered two sixth-grade high-tier Soul-Raising Purification Pills to anyone who killed him. As an azure sword strike closed in on Mo Xuan, the surrounding cultivators prepared to seize the reward.

• Mo Xuan pointed out Bai Yu, drawing the interest of the surrounding clans and sects, while Xiao Rongrong, Meng Bingyan, and Miao Yinling reacted with hostility.
• Bai Yu taunted Mo Xuan and offered him great medicine only if he knelt and kowtowed.
• Zheng Moran recognized Bai Yu and decided to let others test his strength, while Zheng Qingyue urged her brother not to provoke him.
• Bai Yu produced two sixth-grade high-tier Soul-Raising Purification Pills and promised them to whoever killed Mo Xuan.
• An unidentified attacker unleashed a powerful azure sword strike at Mo Xuan, and a rogue cultivator celebrated the chance to claim the pills.

Bai Yu discovered that Li Yiqiu possessed a Nine-Aperture Bodhi Heart and promised him two great medicines to kill Mo Xuan. As the two fought, the Heavenly Snake Ancestor declared that no one would leave Holy Snake Mountain alive and revealed a silver vine radiating terrifying power.

• Li Yiqiu struck at Mo Xuan, and Bai Yu recognized the Nine-Aperture Bodhi Heart inside Li Yiqiu's chest.
• Bai Yu offered Li Yiqiu two great medicines in exchange for Mo Xuan's head, while secretly ordering the Black Feather King to watch him.
• Li Yiqiu attacked Mo Xuan with overwhelming sword intent, driving the fight away from the crowd.
• The Profound Fire Azure Luan Clan demanded an explanation from the Heavenly Snake Ancestor for the attacks by Heavenly Snake Sect members.
• The Heavenly Snake Ancestor refused to explain himself, vowed to kill everyone at Holy Snake Mountain, and revealed a powerful silver vine.

The Heavenly Snake Ancestor unleashed a blood-fed Star Spirit Demon Vine to consume everyone at Holy Snake Mountain and empower him. As the vines overwhelmed the mountain, the gathered factions joined forces, while the Ancestor began a ritual and someone cried out for rescue.

• The Heavenly Snake Ancestor revealed the Star Spirit Demon Vine, trapping the gathered teams inside Holy Snake Mountain and exposing his plan to feed the vine with their lives.
• Xuan Qingning, Miao Yinling, Zheng Moran, and other experts prepared to fight, but the Heavenly Snake Ancestor's son retreated into the pocket realm as the vine consumed nearby Heavenly Snake Sect disciples.
• The Heavenly Snake Ancestor transformed and said that fusing with the vine would turn everything it consumed into his nourishment, while Li Shuyu warned him to make sure he could control it.
• More Star Spirit Demon Vines erupted across Holy Snake Mountain, forcing the rival factions to cooperate as Xiao Rongrong attacked with talismans and Murong Qingyu froze a path through the vines.
• Bai Yu spotted the Heavenly Snake Ancestor drawing on the ground with his serpent staff and considered attacking him, but a desperate scream for help interrupted him.

Bai Yu and the other cultivators struggled against the Star Spirit Demon Vines while Zhang Baidao explained the Heavenly Snake Ancestor’s plan and how they could exploit the Heavenly Feather Snake’s arrival. The chapter left Bai Yu and Zhang Baidao negotiating over the spoils, with Bai Yu insisting he would choose first.

• Murong Qingyu froze and shattered the Star Spirit Demon Vines holding Zhang Baidao, astonishing the gathered experts.
• Xuan Qingning urged the surrounded cultivators to unite, while others debated attacking the Heavenly Snake Ancestor and taking the Mountain God Seal.
• Bai Yu demanded a solution from Zhang Baidao, who explained that the Heavenly Snake Ancestor planned to draw out the Heavenly Feather Snake and use the gathered cultivators as sacrifices.
• Zhang Baidao told Bai Yu that the Heavenly Feather Snake’s arrival would create a chance to strike, and that an outside force was also approaching.
• Bai Yu proposed taking Li Shuyu for himself and offered Zhang Baidao thirty percent of the resources in the Heavenly Snake Ancestor’s spatial ring, while keeping first choice.

Bai Yu led his group toward the Heavenly Snake Ancestor, but Li Shuyu and two Earth-rank Divine Maidens blocked their path. When Li Shuyu attacked Bai Yu, the Black Feather King appeared and caught her sword, revealing peak Tribulation Transcendence strength.

• The Star Spirit Demon Vine erupted again, forcing the scattered cultivators to unite, while Meng Bingyan returned injured and Li Yiqiu's corpse fell away sealed.
• Bai Yu ordered a path cleared to the Heavenly Snake Ancestor, who transformed into a black giant python and began a savage battle with the white, winged snake.
• Li Shuyu and two Earth-rank Divine Maidens confronted Bai Yu with twenty Spirit Transformation attendants, but Bai Yu's allies separated their forces and left Li Shuyu to face him.
• Li Shuyu lunged at Bai Yu with her sword, but the Black Feather King appeared, caught the blade, and prepared to strike her with a fist.

Li Shuyu used Holy Snake Mountain’s power and the Vast Sword Emperor’s inheritance to challenge Black Feather King while guarding the space behind her. As Li Shuyu unleashed the Sword Emperor’s sealed power, Bai Yu prepared to exploit the opening and confront the Heavenly Snake Ancestor.

• Bai Yu’s attack shattered Li Shuyu’s protective jade pendant, but she stayed to guard the passage behind her.
• Zhang Baidao sensed that Holy Snake Mountain was bolstering Li Shuyu, while Bai Yu focused on the Heavenly Snake Ancestor.
• Black Feather King attacked Li Shuyu with a golden spear, and Li Shuyu countered with the Vast Sword’s First Sword.
• Li Shuyu drew more energy into herself and summoned a giant Sword Emperor phantom, draining power from Holy Snake Mountain.
• Zhang Baidao warned Bai Yu that Li Shuyu was tearing open the seal on the Vast Sword Emperor’s remaining power to fight to the death.

Li Shuyu used the Vast Sword to challenge Black Feather King, but Black Feather King defeated and captured her. At the Dayless Mountain altar, Li Shuyu discovered that Pei Yueshen was imprisoned nearby.

• Li Shuyu summoned the Vast Sword and its phantom, raising her strength enough to challenge Black Feather King.
• Li Shuyu unleashed Vast Sword, Sword Eighteen: Slay Immortal, but Black Feather King shattered the attack with the Mysterious Edge Sword.
• Black Feather King broke Li Shuyu’s wrist, suppressed the violet orb in her dantian, and bound her with an iron chain.
• Bai Yu sent Li Shuyu into the grotto-heaven, where she was chained to the altar of Dayless Mountain.
• Li Shuyu recognized the imprisoned woman nearby as Pei Yueshen, and Pei Yueshen opened her eyes in shock.

Bai Yu decided to enter the mirrored space where the Heavenly Feather Snake and Nether Dragon Python fought, despite Zhang Baidao warning him of the danger. With the Chaos Heaven Disk revealing a weak point, Bai Yu broke open the barrier and plunged inside, leaving the outcome of his gamble unknown.

• Zhang Baidao explained that the Heavenly Feather Snake and Nether Dragon Python had abandoned their physical bodies and were locked in a contest of consciousness that would end with one evolving into a new body.
• Bai Yu insisted on opening the barrier, planning to use the beasts and the energy within to break through to Spirit Transformation and refine several Gu and other materials.
• Zhang Baidao said the Chaos Heaven Disk could expose a flaw in the mirrored space, allowing Bai Yu only one brief chance to break through.
• Bai Yu used the Chaos Heaven Disk to reveal a cracked rune, then struck the weak point repeatedly with black and white energy dragons until a person-sized opening formed.
• Bai Yu plunged through the crack, and the Chaos Heaven Disk followed him as its light faded.

Bai Yu entered the mirror space and found the Heavenly Snake Ancestor’s plan to devour the Heavenly Feather Snake nearing completion. He killed both serpents and began absorbing the energy released from their corpses, leaving him poised to turn his fortunes around.

• Bai Yu entered the mirror space and watched the Heavenly Feather Snake and Nether Dragon Python weaken as they fought.
• The Heavenly Snake Ancestor revealed his plan to devour the Heavenly Feather Snake and reclaim his power, despite the sacrifices he had made to prepare.
• Bai Yu appeared behind the Nether Dragon Python and struck both serpents with the broken bronze sword and Absolute Sword Gu.
• Bai Yu severed both serpents’ heads, then used Red Lotus Karmic Fire to engulf their corpses.
• The spiritual energy in the mirror space surged into Bai Yu as the snake corpses burned.

Bai Yu absorbed the energy in the mirror space and broke through to Spirit Transformation, awakening his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes. He began refining two new life-bound Gu from the available corpses and materials, but the Fortune-Devouring Snake Gu still required a crucial ingredient outside the mirror space.

• Bai Yu tempered his body and compressed his energy until he reached the limit of the Immortal Path Nascent Soul realm.
• After seven days, Bai Yu formed a sea of consciousness, a Spirit Transformation Platform, and a soul strengthened by his natal Gu.
• Bai Yu reached Spirit Transformation Level 1 and awakened his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes, which revealed the mirror space's true nature.
• Bai Yu decided to make the Fortune-Devouring Snake Vine and Gloomlight Realm Toad his life-bound Gu for the Spirit Transformation stage.
• Bai Yu placed the Heavenly Feather Snake, Nether Dragon Python, Li Yiqiu, Ghost Realm Resentful Toad, and forty-nine Great Medicines into the Eight-Chi Cauldron to begin refining his new Gu.
• Bai Yu continued the refinement despite the mirror space trembling, since a crucial material for the Fortune-Devouring Snake Gu remained outside it.

Bai Yu’s identity as the Great Apothecary was exposed when Xuan Qingning’s group reached Holy Snake Mountain, where Black Feather King barred their way. Bai Yu emerged from the shattered mirror space and used the Eight-Chi Cauldron and Red Lotus Karmic Fire to fight the Star Spirit Demon Vine, leaving the other factions watching as the vine began to falter.

• Xuan Qingning and the other cultivators broke through the Star Spirit Demon Vines and found Black Feather King and her allies guarding the mirror space.
• The gathered factions recognized Bai Yu as the Great Apothecary and learned that Black Feather King’s group included powerful experts and an immortal artifact.
• Zheng Moran confronted Zheng Qingyue about whether she had known Bai Yu’s identity, but she denied it.
• Ao Zhantian and several beast clans proposed working with Black Feather King to destroy the vines, but she refused and ordered them to stay back.
• Xiao Rongrong shattered the mirror space with talismans, and Bai Yu emerged with the Eight-Chi Cauldron and a token linked to Holy Snake Mountain.
• Bai Yu unleashed the Red Lotus Karmic Fire against the Star Spirit Demon Vine, absorbing its power as the vine’s frantic resistance began to weaken it.

Bai Yu refined the Star Spirit Demon Vine into the Gloombright Mirror Toad, then claimed Holy Snake Mountain and denied knowing about the Battle Emperor's inheritance. When Zheng Moran attacked the platform, bronze armor and a green phantom emerged, confronting him.

• Bai Yu used the Red Lotus Karmic Fire to refine the Star Spirit Demon Vine into a Gloombright Mirror Toad that absorbed foul luck and improved his fortune.
• Bai Yu announced that the Heavenly Snake Ancestor was dead and claimed Holy Snake Mountain with its Mountain God Seal.
• Zhang Baidao fed black qi to the Gloombright Mirror Toad, then moved beside Bai Yu until Nangong Xuansu slapped him away.
• Xuan Qingning demanded that Bai Yu share the Battle Emperor's inheritance, but Bai Yu said he had no idea what inheritance she meant.
• Zheng Moran shattered the platform on Black Mountain, revealing bronze armor and a green phantom that appeared before him.

A terrifying remnant appeared at Holy Snake Mountain, and Zhang Baidao revealed that it was the War Emperor’s Evil Corpse, a fifth-level Void Refinement being. Bai Yu and the others prepared to flee as Zhang Baidao warned that it might treat them as blood food to regain its strength.

• The War Emperor’s phantom emerged with archaic bronze armor and overwhelmed everyone with its aura.
• Bai Yu recognized that the phantom looked like the War Emperor he had seen before, but suspected something was wrong and prepared to retreat.
• Zhang Baidao urged Bai Yu to activate the Divine Baleful Gu and escape with the Mountain God Seal.
• Zhang Baidao identified the phantom as the War Emperor’s Evil Corpse and explained how the War Emperor’s three corpses had inherited parts of his consciousness.
• Zhang Baidao warned that the fifth-level Void Refinement Evil Corpse might consume everyone as blood food to restore its strength.

The War Emperor seized Zheng Moran’s body and revealed himself as the War Emperor’s evil corpse, killing several Tribulation Transcendence experts with ease. Bai Yu brought Yu Linglong and the others into the Grotto-Heaven while Meng Bingyan and Miao Yinling chose to stay beside him as the evil corpse prepared to attack.

• Ao Zhantian and the other Tribulation Transcendence experts attacked Zheng Moran to stop the War Emperor from taking his body.
• Zheng Moran awakened, froze the attackers, killed Ao Zhantian, and crushed two Three-Beast Flood Dragons and four Sacred Heart Giant Elephant experts for their blood.
• Xuan Qingning broke the spatial restrictions and realized Zheng Moran was the War Emperor’s evil corpse, a separate embodiment of his suppressed nature.
• Bai Yu took Yu Linglong, Dugu Yan, and Xiao Rongrong into the Grotto-Heaven while Black Feather King stood guard beside him.
• Meng Bingyan and Miao Yinling refused to retreat and joined Bai Yu as Zheng Moran announced that the fighting would end there.

Bai Yu used the Gloombright Mirror Toad to wound Zheng Moran’s battle intent, but the group remained trapped on Holy Snake Mountain. A powerful sword cultivator arrived, shattered the barrier, and revealed that Miao Yinling was her disciple.

• Zheng Moran used his black rhinoceros battle intent to pull back fleeing cultivators and slaughtered them as the experts struggled to survive.
• Zheng Moran targeted Black Feather King, but Bai Yu summoned the Gloombright Mirror Toad and drew on Black Feather King’s magic power to counter him.
• The Gloombright Mirror Toad kissed Zhang Baidao, absorbed his weight, and spat a sphere of misfortune that struck Zheng Moran’s hand seal.
• Zheng Moran resumed his attack, forcing Bai Yu, Black Feather King, Zhang Baidao, Meng Bingyan, and Miao Yinling to retreat while Bai Yu prepared the Divine Baleful Gu.
• A tremendous sword strike split Black Mountain and dispersed the battle intent, and a woman in a white palace gown broke through the barrier.
• The woman addressed Miao Yinling as her disciple, told her to return with her Grandmaster, and said she would be punished for running around.

Fei Jingxin, the sect master of Compassion Tranquility Retreat and an uncrowned Sword Emperor, arrived at Holy Snake Mountain and suppressed Zheng Moran, who was possessed by the Battle Emperor’s evil corpse. She vowed to destroy the Heavenly Snake Sect and end Zheng Moran, who answered her challenge by unleashing the Battle Emperor’s Immortal Cauldron.

• Fei Jingxin appeared and suppressed Zheng Moran, shocking the assembled experts with her strength.
• Xuan Qingning identified Fei Jingxin as the Sword Emperor and sect master of Compassion Tranquility Retreat.
• Miao Yinling greeted her grandmaster, and Fei Jingxin credited Bai Yu, Meng Bingyan, and Miao Yinling for saving her disciples.
• Fei Jingxin declared that the Heavenly Snake Sect and Zheng Moran would be destroyed, then gathered overwhelming sword intent against him.
• Zheng Moran summoned the Battle Emperor’s Immortal Cauldron and sent its battle-intent rivers crashing down to suppress Fei Jingxin.

Fei Jingxin killed Zheng Moran with her Purifying Heart sword and awarded Holy Snake Mountain to Bai Yu, while revealing that the Blood Prison Dynasty had let her sect pass because of him. The Human-Faced Lion Saint appeared and demanded that Bai Yu return resources belonging to the Beast Emperor.

• Fei Jingxin crossed Zheng Moran's battle-intent attack and killed him with one strike, taking the rhinoceros horn he left behind.
• Fei Jingxin arrived before Bai Yu, and Miao Yinling explained that he had saved the Compassion Tranquility Retreat disciples from poison.
• Fei Jingxin granted Holy Snake Mountain to Bai Yu and acknowledged that her passage through the Blood Prison Dynasty had been permitted because of him.
• The Human-Faced Lion Saint emerged from the void, and Xuan Qingning respectfully greeted him as her master.
• The Human-Faced Lion Saint accepted Bai Yu's claim to the Divine Mountain but demanded that he return resources belonging to the Beast Emperor.

Bai Yu refused the Human-Faced Lion Saint’s demand to return what he had taken, with Fei Jingxin backing him and offering him protection. The Wild Beast Domain departed, while Bai Yu declined an invitation to join Compassion Tranquility Retreat and prepared to return to the Blood Prison Dynasty.

• The Human-Faced Lion Saint asked Bai Yu to hand over the women he had captured and warned that keeping them could make the Wild Beast Domain his enemy.
• Bai Yu denied knowing what the Human-Faced Lion Saint meant and refused to give up Pei Yueshen and Li Shuyu.
• Fei Jingxin declared that Bai Yu could keep what he had and told the Beast Emperor to raise any dispute with her directly.
• The Human-Faced Lion Saint left with the Wild Beast Domain’s people, warning Bai Yu that others might not be as easy to deal with.
• Fei Jingxin invited Bai Yu to Compassion Tranquility Retreat, but he said he had to return to report to Grand Marshal Qi Tongzhi.
• Fei Jingxin warned Bai Yu to be cautious about the Blood Prison Dynasty, then asked Meng Bingyan to accompany her to the Grand Void Sect.

After Compassion Tranquility Retreat destroyed the Heavenly Snake Sect, Bai Yu absorbed Holy Snake Mountain and prepared to return to the Feather Spirit Dynasty. After cultivating for three days, he discovered that he could not sense the good corpse he expected to have formed after his breakthrough.

• Bai Yu watched Compassion Tranquility Retreat depart after its cultivators slaughtered the Heavenly Snake Sect and cursed the surviving snakefolk.
• Bai Yu used the Mountain God Seal to absorb Holy Snake Mountain into his grotto-heaven and invited Zhang Baidao to join him in the Feather Spirit Dynasty.
• Zhang Baidao refused, took Bai Yu's promised reward, and left with the ring that Jiang Yan had secretly modified to track him.
• Bai Yu and the Black Feather King decided to consolidate their gains before returning to the Feather Spirit Dynasty, and Bai Yu cultivated for three days as Holy Snake Mountain was absorbed.
• Bai Yu asked the Black Feather King to show him her good and evil corpses, then realized he could not find his own good corpse.